ABSTRACT
This book assessed the hypothesis that corporate resource exploitation can be impacted more effectively when the resistance is formed by, utilizes and promotes contentious agency. The hypothesis provided the opportunity to contribute to and challenge some parts of social scientific theory, especially theories in the social movement literature. McAdam, Tarrow and Tilly (2001, 2008) suggest that the analysis should be dynamic, surveying the intersections between resistance, authorities and opponents. A substantial part of the existing literature studying social movement outcomes has focused on studying target responses (e.g. company or state counter-strategies) to movement mobilization (e.g. Luders 2010). Soule (2009), studying the impact of contention on corporate policies, suggested studies need to identify which strategies work and under what circumstances, calling for assessments of the relative and joint impacts of various factors on how economic outcomes are impacted by activists’ demands. I have attempted to provide a dynamic theoretical framework and empirical examination to answer these calls. My focus has been on contributing to the understanding of the causal relations between specific quality and combination of movement and corporate strategies in differing natural resource politics dynamics on the slowing down of extraction expansion.
